After months of rumours, Meta has finally launched it’s Twitter-rival platform called “Threads” this week on App Store.
The app is a branch out of Instagram and will let users log in with their current Instagram credentials and follow the same people they’re following on Instagram. Meta’s new Threads are available only to iOS users, with downloads from Thursday onwards.
Cashing on Twitter Havoc
With Elon Musk-led Twitter slowly falling apart, Mark Zuckerberg-led Meta is quick to cash in on this opportunity to lure Twitter users to it’s similar platform. As confirmed earlier, Meta has launched it’s much-hyped Twitter rival, Threads, this week.
The new app is live on Apple’s App Store, with a listing revealing the app’s UI and permissions it needs. Though it’s earlier touted as a decentralised social media platform, checking the data it takes gives a contrary vibe. The app notes to collect users’ contacts, financial info, health data and other sensitive information.
Regarding the UI, the new app seems more like Twitter’s copy, with like, comment and share buttons and a thread style to track the timeline of posts. Meta’s Threads is a branch of Instagram letting users log in with their Instagram credentials and follow people they already follow on Instagram.
This gives the app the head start it needs and places it aside from Twitter and with Meta’s deep pockets and 3 billion users across it’s products(WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram), the Threads app should quickly fill in the void Twitter left all these months.
The community is already hyped about it’s launch, with some experts calling Threads a Twitter killer. Earlier reports stated that Meta has already boarded a few celebrities like Oprah Winfrey and Dalai Lama on Threads and some exclusive sessions with them may turn all people towards it.
Threads launch is already acknowledged by Twitter’s former and current CEOs, with Jack Dorsey tweeting a screenshot of the app’s data policy and Elon Musk responding to it. With it’s launch, Meta aims to become an official place for quick, short and official conversations that Twitter has served all these years.
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